The Last Precinct

Possibly attempting to cash in on the popularity of the Police Academy movies, Stephen J. Cannell’s production company aired the TV movie The Last Precinct in 1986. The gist was that the LAPD decides to put all their weirdo and misfit cops into one division (and no doubt the people who paid taxes for police protection in that neighborhood were just thrilled about it, too). The loveable rogue’s gallery included a cop named “King” who likes to dress like Elvis, a sexy lady cop named Mel who used to be a dude, and otherwise good cop Price Pascal who has a thing for the ladies--and made the mistake of having a thing with the Mayor’s underage daughter. Adam West, who immortalized himself as TV’s Batman in the 1960’s (though most of us were busy gawking at Yvonne Craig or Julie Newmar in their tights), played Captain Rick Wright. Ernie Hudson, who has played a cop in every other movie of his career, made no effort to break typecasting here as Sergeant “Night Train” Lane.  Although the creators of The Last Precinct would have had you believe that Officer Mel Brubaker was once a guy, make no such assumptions about the actress playing her. Randi Brooks, a statuesque blonde with killer curves, gave us an ample eyeful in a see-through nylon body suit when she played the prostitute “Fran” in Steve Martin’s The Man With Two Brains. This squeaky-voiced hooker had a chest of gold, the gold apparently being kept in two large and very full skin sacks. Randi also put her assets to good use as yet another hooker inTightrope with Clint Eastwood and in Hamburger: The Motion Picture.